Gustavo Cheneaux

I paint mainly subjects of famous people, celebrities, and icons of pop culture and fashion; faces, figures, comics. My artworks are a combination of Pop Art and Street Art painted on a collage of torn letters from posters and advertisements extracted from the streets, which are digitized and assembled into the final piece. It is definitely modern, radical painting with a visually beautiful language for the viewer. Intense and vibrant colors combine with large splashes of contrasting colors adorned with multicolored French tears. My major influences are Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Jackson Pollock, Jacques Villeglé, and Mimmo Rotella.

I enjoy working on fairly large formats, ranging from 1.20 to 1.70 meters or larger. I often use different digital techniques, especially when assembling the collages of sources and letters for the abstract backgrounds with torn pieces of paper. I feel a certain fascination for these street paper letters from our poster culture; they function as small testimonies of what surrounds us, and each person randomly interprets them to evoke personal feelings or memories. Taking these letters and fragmenting them in a completely different context than what they originally present on the walls allows me to ...

-SEPTEMBER 2022, The Power of Pop, Saatchiart
-JULY 2023, New This Week 07-24-2023, Saatchiart
-NOVEMBER 2023, New This Week 11-06-2023, Saatchiart
-MAY 2025, CuentaArtes PERU